Stirling Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Stirling Burghs
Type = Burgh
Year = 1708
Abolition = 1918

Stirling Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1918. The constituency comprised the burghs of Stirling in Stirlingshire, Dunfermline, and Inverkeithing in Fife, Queensferry, in Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), and Culross, which was an exclave of Perthshire, transferring to Fife in 1889. By 1832, the burgh of Queensferry had become the burgh of South Queensferry.

In 1918, Stirling became part of Stirling and Falkirk Burghs and Dunfermline became part of Dunfermline Burghs, with the other burghs being represented as part of their respective counties.

Member of Parliament

*1708 John Erskine
*1710 Henry Cunningham
*1728 Thomas Erskine
*1734 Peter Halkett
*1741 James Erskine
*1747 George Haldane
*1758 Robert Haldane
*1761 Francis Holburne
*1768 James Masterton
*1774 Archibald Campbell
*1780 James Campbell
*1789 Archibald Campbell
*1791 Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone
*1797 William Tait
*1800 Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane
*1806 Sir John Henderson
*1807 Alexander Campbell
*1818 John Campbell
*1819 Francis Ward Primrose
*1820 Robert Downie
*1830 James Johnston
*1832 Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny
*1847 John Benjamin Smith
*1852 Sir James Anderson
*1859 James Caird
*1865 Laurence Oliphant
*1868 John Ramsay
*1868 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
*1908 Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, later Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

Election results

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Rt Hon Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman GCB
votes = unopposed
percentage =
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Rt Hon Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman GCB
votes = 2,440
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Unionist Party
candidate = John Fender
votes = 1,471
percentage =
change =

Henry Campbell-Bannerman was returned unopposed at the 1885 General Election and again on 10 February 1886 having accepted office as Secretary of State for War.

See also